Cork midwife Margaret O’Driscoll is set to retire from Cork University Maternity Hospital, after four decades caring for babies, writes EMMA CONNOLLY

In a world where human contact is limited and normal hospital procedures required major changes, staff at Cork University Maternity Hospital (CUMH) worked hard to ensure that people in labour could still savour the magical moments of childbirth, ...

The Murphy quadruplets, from Riverstick in Cork, celebrated their eighteenth birthday today surrounded by the medical staff who brought them into the world.

CORK University Maternity Hospital is confident it can offer pregnant women in the region timely access to foetal anomaly scans at the appropriate time of between 21 and 23 weeks gestation.

PREGNANT women in Cork are facing delays when getting scans to detect potential defects in their unborn children.